skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you create this account for this purpose?

I don't have any stake in C2, I just want to make clear that they are the standard that this will be measured against and that they are said standard for a reason. Anything advertised lesser should be viewed with suspicion, particularly for safety critical products.

All that said, there are opportunities to improve, but those opportunities mainly exist in the software space. Focusing on hardware solely to create a moat isn't innovation, it's making landfill fodder.

Finally, I have significant experience in this area, both as an athlete and a coach. Enough that I would unmask myself very quickly if I mentioned any details. I don't coach anymore and don't have any financial interest in that either. Teaching people to use these devices safely isn't an "instructional videos" and "warm up" ordeal. This will sound silly but people generally don't know what their body is doing without tight feedback loops and their perception breaks down under stress/over the duration of a workout. We frequently had people row in front of mirrors to get things to click (another business opportunity in the computer vision space). It's painfully obvious when you go anywhere that has mixed classically trained and self trained rowers who is who.

I only raise questions because the move-fast-break-things approach is dangerous when you're breaking people. I couldn't care less about the VCs getting fleeced by this.
Note, I made no claim on what is or is not credible. I simply stated that there were experts claiming that. This gives cover for Rudy
Has anyone seen something along these lines for very innocent "G" rated family videos?

I recently went through a major VHS digitization project and it would be amazing to have something of this quality to host them.

I haven't looked closely at the project enough yet to see if this could easily be adapted. I'm concerned that the adult content focus around performers and acts might make it hard to adapt.
A standing desk and a hot plate to keep a cup of tea warm. The desk keeps me moving and the tea being handy reduces trips to the kitchen.
This claim is completely false. As others pointed out the EU applies stricter and stricter emission regulations each year forcing all manufacturers to comply.
Tarsnap uses AWS S3
This is seriously cool. I've been wanting to try gather.town for awhile, but this looks better... agree that some sort of screen sharing integration would be rad.
Daily Hydroxochloroquine now recommended by AMJMED for Covid19 treatment
Sandia National Labs spends huge amounts of time, energy, and money making sure US nuclear weapons turn into bricks if they are damaged or tampered with, while also being ultra-reliable if the President orders their use.

It's a level of safety and reliability engineering that exists nowhere else; you simply cannot comprehend it unless you've worked there.

It wasn't always this way but it's been true since the 1970s. The accident described in the article was one of several that created Sandia's engineering culture.

If you somehow got your hands on a modern nuclear weapon and you had a team of PhD engineers, a year of time, and the best tools in the world, you might be able to get the radioactive material out, but you absolutely would not make it explode.
in mid 2019 it's worth $81 B

Anyone tells us the truth of its worth in this moment?
Info is here: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/
Does anyone have any information in what exactly goes into "refurbishing" the satellites which land? What exactly do they do to the rockets to get them mission-ready again?
I believe they’re referring to this thread from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472970
This this just for porn, or any video files you have on your hard drive?
How is it any different from Kramer / CNBC / The Motley Fool recommending stocks to buy and giving price targets?
I like the honesty on https://collapseos.org/civ.html but I get a very John Titor vibe from the author- To be honest if we have the collapse he envisions I think most people would be too worried about food to care about bootstrapping something on random hardware. However cyberpunk or fallout cool the idea is... still, was a fun read.
> You can collapse threads you no longer intend to read.

True, but only if there's more than one thread on the page.
Thanks for the recommendation - I've got that book on my coffee table but never had much motivation to open it up. Will give it a shot.
Disney Plus Pulls ‘Peter Pan,’ ‘Dumbo,’ ‘Aristocats’ from Children’s Profiles
> Why don't all languages just do it like that?

I think the main problem has been that it requires building an appropriate concurrency design into the foundation of a language.

For most PLs, concurrency is somewhat of an afterthought, and even for those where concurrency was addressed from the get go, the design nevertheless doesn't support work stealing, or, if it does, doesn't support doing so at the language level.

> I doubt...

Scepticism is healthy. :)

But regardless of my speculation about why most PLs don't go this route:

* The general technique (called "work stealing"[0]) was first implemented last century;

* PLs can support it directly at the language level provided they have suitable foundations;

* Raku is one such PL.

The first version of Raku (Raku Christmas, released Christmas Day 2015) already eliminated the need for function colouring. While the first version included an array of concurrency, async, and parallel processing features, including an `await` keyword, there has never been an `async` keyword in Raku. This is unusual, but Raku is not the only recently released PL to do so.

Work stealing semantics for `await` were only formally introduced in Raku Diwali, released Diwali day 2018, and the corresponding Rakudo compiler. Again, this makes Raku unusual, but not unique.

(What is perhaps unique is that Raku programs can include both old and new semantics in the same program. Raku has a radically different take on language evolution and backwards compatibility such that incompatible changes don't mean modules are incompatible with each other. Not easy to do, but possible, as demonstrated by Raku programs that make use of both Christmas and Diwali modules.)

> Sounds pretty easy, no?

It is easy for users. Once it's implemented in a language.

But it's not easy for language designers and implementers. (And it's essentially impossible to introduce if a PL has already adopted older approaches to concurrency.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_stealing
Trump told his voters to try to vote twice. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-vote/t...

If anything it’s surprising that Pennsylvania only caught 3 Trump supporters trying to do it (see links in ancestor comment).
> I think without reducing all the stress it'll never stop.

Is there anything you can do to reduce excessive stress?
Am I the only one who thinks it's bizarre that a structured query language defines so much of how we choose to architect and operate our systems?

Think about it for a sec: SQL is literally just a language to query and manipulate data. There's no reason that schema changes and data changes have to happen only through the one language, and only through one interface on one piece of software.

For whatever reason, this has just been how the most popular products have done it, and they largely just never changed their designs in 40 years. I like the language, and the general organization of the data is handy. But everything else about it is archaic.

Why fumble around with synchronization? 99% of the data in big datasets doesn't change. This doesn't even have to be "log-based", we just need to be able to ship the old, stable data and treat it almost like "cold storage".

Why is there a single point of entry into the data? You have to use the one database cluster to access the one database and the one set of tables. Why can't we expose that same data in multiple ways, using multiple pieces of software, on multiple endpoints?

Other protocols and languages have ways of dealing with these kinds of things. LDAP can refer you to a different endpoint to process what you need. Web servers can store, process, and retrieve the same content across many different endpoints in a variety of ways. Lots of technology exists that can easily replicate, snapshot, version-control, etc arbitrary pieces of data and expose them to any application using standard interfaces.

Why haven't we created a database yet which works more like the Unix operating system?
Dominion sent document-retention notices to Fox News and other right-wing media outlets, so they might end up on the receiving end of a suit of their own.
Almost definitely unrelated, but I find myself much more fatigued than expected after Zoom/Teams calls. Besides the emotional weirdness of digital only, no eye contact, etc, I can't help but feel that my voice is unexpectedly tired after calls as well.

I have started to think that I'm speaking too loudly to compensate for the lack of physical closeness and I'm "over modulating" my voice to "project" emotion into the call.

Maybe I'm making it up? Anyone having a similar experience?
Plex is usually the go to for this.

Edit: Someone else mentioned Jellyfin, which is a great free option.
Keep the stateless, replicated, CDN content all on the ground.

Put the global (no longer replicated) datastore in space, and let me run some simple Lambda functions. Low latency, atomic transactions from anywhere in the world! Yes please!
Personally I think Jellyfin is going to be a better solution for hosting family-friendly media for the home.
That's explicitly a violation of Google's Play Store Policies:

> Apps must not present themselves as a spying or secret surveillance solution.

If your application could be accurately described as a "spy cam", it's likely that you were already in violation of their stalkerware policies.
And then it grows and turns into this steel blue newt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_newt#/media/File:Uhandr...
Came here to say this. Ten years later, there are many more entrepreneurs who think about revenue (and even profitability!), not just sending their user numbers to the moon.

Presumably the first thousand users will help you to figure out what are the most important aspects of your product/service, what you can charge for, what you should give away for free, etc.

It would be really interesting to see a follow-on article titled How To Get Your First 1,000 Customers.
There is a lot of open source file sync software out there (ownCloud, NextCloud, Seafile, Syncthing, ...) that would be much better suited for a self-hosted Dropbox replacement than a single bash script. You are many orders of magnitude more likely to lose your data due to a code bug or unstable network than deplatforming.

I looked into setting up something of the sort for myself a little while ago, but unfortunately the pricing just isn't feasible if you have a large amount of data (say a few hundred GBs). You could easily end up paying more than $100/mo for storage + compute + bandwidth, while Dropbox and others charge ~$6-$10/mo for like 2TB.
Hadn't that changed only very recently though? Not an American, so I forgot for a second that it's different there.
Iridium already cover the poles? You can get 700kbit down and bonding terminals is a possibility.
Exactly. We never heard a peep about the deficit when Repubs were enacting tax cuts for the wealthy.
In reality, there is no consensus among economists about what percentage of GNP is appropriate for the deficit, and interest rates are very low right now, suggesting that there's plenty of headroom.
Dropbox does a great job syncing a large number of small files -- I believe they compress the small files somehow before uploading to the cloud. And plenty of other optimizations that make me happy to pay Dropbox's premium. Otherwise, Google Drive and OneDrive are cheap alternatives too.
You are kidding me, their defence in court is that they are bullshit artists, it’s just beyond parody. I’m starting to think we live in something far worse than idiocracy...

Dominion at the very least should be demanding they remove the word “news” from all their branding if this is to fly.
only porn
Seems like a lot of work for what it is
> Instead of filing massive law suits, why doesn't Dominion attempt to prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that the machines were _not_ biased with technical evidence.

All right dstola: For the purposes of argument, I accuse you of being a thief who has embezzled millions of dollars from some company you've worked for. Instead of suing me for defamation for my lie, why don't you just prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you didn't steal anything? Maybe you could open source your bank account data, and all your movements to show that you couldn't have opened any secret accounts?

That's a ridiculous ask. The malicious accusation of embezzled is a lie that harmed you, and proving your innocence won't compensate you for the harm caused by that lie. These lawsuits are about the harm done to Dominion.

Also, no analysis of any kind would ever satisfy the people who believe the 2020 election was marred by vote fraud. That belief isn't based on evidence, and massive amounts of evidence to the contrary hasn't convinced those people. There's no reason to think one more report would make any difference.
You are correct; no smiley needed. Plus a boatload of other torture scenarios.
Well, not that anyone is forced to participate in the market, especially knowing about intentionally irrational players.
Was some mix of decoupling / parallelizing the Actions service considered?

I believe the value of dogfooding would be immense. Not only could you become the customer (massive reduction to the deploy/measure feedback loop), but it would be a key marketing move.

On top of that, the GUI that will now require critical care and development is essentially a clone of what is offered by Github Actions.
Only became a problem in combination with other missteps (or constraints, like dev needing to be routable).

Which is what makes this kind of stuff so insidious.
Working at home is great. It eliminates commute time so there is more time for life. I seriously doubt companies are going to willingly take a 20% cut in time they demand for a given salary. Most employers would thank that if someone gets more done in 4 days than they do in 5 that means they are slacking off when they should have been working.
Hi HN,

I thought this was quite interesting; after considerable negative coverage in the news-media, now an article in the American Journal of Medicine has recommended treatment of 200mgof Hydroxochloroquine per day for Covid-19 patients.

Negative media coverage has continued until quite recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/hydroxychloroquin...
Eagle is also pretty good for managing random videos in a tag-based manner: https://eagle.cool
I was taken political prisoner three times in the Broadlawns facility ran by Polk County Iowa - currently helping Federal Medicaid claw back the fraudulent $20k hospital bill. Lynchpins of the rampant political corruption is nepotism between Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen/ brother 4th District Chief Judge Jeff Larson and Hon Mary Tabor/brother Chief Deputy Attorney General Eric Tabor.

What you speak of does exist, it's Medicaid - the issue is only in states like Iowa do you have such due process free statutes like Iowa Code 125/229 that magistrates can lock you up without solid evidence that the person is a true threat to themselves or others.
Octobot: Soft-Bodied Autonomous Robot
"Octobot is a 3D printed soft-bodied autonomous robot that shaped like a small octopus, and its soft body is made of 3D printed silicone gel. It uses hydrogen peroxide as its main power source and also contains a microfluidic logic circuit. Octobot is said to be able to move on its own without any aid by a battery or an electrical power source. The hydrogen peroxide flows around a network of 3D printed hollows (or freckles) within the body of the robot. Hydrogen peroxide moves over platinum pieces, which causes a chemical reaction. This chemical reaction causes a gas to form creating the main power source for the robot. This phenomenon produces a reaction that inflates and moves the arms, to propel the robot through water."
Who can actually down vote on HN?
> We then made the following changes to the subscriber database in order to speed up the synchronization: [...] Set fsync to off

I'm curious how much risk of data loss this added.

I guess the baseline is "we need to migrate before we run out of disk" I.e. you're either going to have data loss or a long period of unavailability if the migration cannot be carried out fast enough.
The standard rowing machines (sit on sliding seat, feet stationary) can actually be pretty abusive to the spine, worse than scull or sweep. I've seen inexperienced people actually hurt themselves. It's mostly an issue of shock at the catch and finish. Dynamic machines such as those made by C2, Row perfect, etc are a bit better in this regard and might be a better fit for this market.
The website is more explanatory: https://stashapp.cc (NSFW)
I like my Bordeaux wines from France. One time I obtained a Pomerol. It was so very much better than my normal 'great' wines.

I later discovered that it was also nearly four times the price.

So, yes, expensive wines do taste better. But are they good 'value for money'? I doubt that.
Tokyo Electron, SUMCO
Are you talking about WiDi? I tried to use that on my 3gen i7 laptop. It was awful experience on Windows 7. Then I switched to Linux and never went back.
We get it. You want "dissenter" but for HN.
pg_upgrade would have worked fine given your requirements. Just using normal streaming replication to move database over to new systems and then performing an in place pg_upgrade there would be doable with most likely a couple of minutes of downtime and a much quicker and more robust process.
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Interested in this myself. There appears to be some sort of partnership between Backblaze and CloudFlare

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666928-Using...

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010017893-Ho...
> I guess if you really nail the science, you can make it infectious and vaccinate by breathing on people.

I suppose that a government-funded infectious vaccine would be one way to get anti-maskers to reverse their stance on wearing cloth face coverings...
Thank you very much for your advice. I have my notes for a sync meeting this week which is in line with what you mentioned. I will use this approach.
Data Analytics Challenges Companies Will Face in 2021
my workload is heavily compute constrained and I notice a big difference in the performance/time of my analyses on OpenBSD vs Linux. Most other people probably wouldn't notice it that much though.

Edit: tbqh I haven't used openBSD in a couple years, so things might have (probably?) changed since then.
you need at least 500 karma.
Thinkpads can do mobile data, of that's what you need.
A SaSS website which allows users to pay for full access to all content at a low price subscription.
If fsync is turned back on and a manual sync call is issued before considering the replica valid there will be no risk from this.
Well, this year I've met two friends at the store because we were buying similarly weird produce.

But it's just a reply about the car making your interaction with your community almost exclusively commercial. I've met far more friends at the park, usually when I'm walking through with my dog.
HSM in space is a compelling idea. You don't need a big satellite either. You really just need to keep a few hundred bytes of key material and then process crypto operations against it from the ground.
Part of the problem here is, even if the voting system is unreliable...why would it favor one candidate over another? It should cancel each other out right?
Neat.

My prescription changes every couple of minutes. But along a predictable curve.

I keep thinking about getting optometrist adjustable lenses hooking it up to motors to automatically shift the lenses. Mechanical is beyond me though.
My optometrist definitely said that I would not end up with worse vision overall, but that my vision would get worse faster. So per my optometrist, glasses do make it worse by my criteria (but not by hers).
An ex of mine worked with the homeless through a training program attached to a shelter. Maybe 2 or 3 out of 10 took the training seriously and were stable enough to actually put it to any use. The rest were just there for free bus passes and meals, or were too unstable to hold even an unskilled job for a month.

The hardest part was that those who needed help the most could have gotten it through the program, but were so untrusting of seeing a doctor that they flat out refused- most thought they would be locked up in a ward or some similar conspiracy fear.

Winter around here is no joke, and it is hard to see them and not want to help, but the truth is that the visibly homeless don't want it enough to change. The invisible homeless- the people who don't look like a living stereotype- usually make it out because they still have hope.
Oh yes, sure I don't doubt there isn't much there in the US. But certainly in Finland, Europe etc. there is.
I would think you could adapt most of it. 'Performers' just becomes 'People'. And 'Scenes' are still that, just different sets of keywords. I think the harder part is just getting all the data tagged properly.

Although it also reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839848 where he discusses his solution to digitizing and hosting the videos. He used Mediagoblin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectricity
I feel like these adult only hosting services usually succumb to operating costs.
Unfortunately we don't really have the battery technology for this to work for long range flights, like the commercial flights that make up the bulk of air traffic carbon emissions.

I expect the best near-term solution is just to find a way to synthesize jet fuel (or something that works equivalently) on a large scale from something other than fossil fuels. I don't know what the state-of-the-art is in synthetic fuels.

Another option would be to find a way to transfer electricity to a moving aircraft so it could recharge in the air, but I have difficulty imagining how that could be made to work (microwaves? high-power lasers and solar panels? wires held aloft by zeppelins?), especially within the constraints of modern technology.
The iPhone 8 has Touch ID but wasn’t Apple’s flagship phone at its release – the iPhone X was the flagship at the time.
Err there are other ways to prove (memory) safety than exhaustive testing, such as better type systems and static analysis (Rust) or better run time checks (any garbage collected language)
AI is still terrible, news at 11.
I wish they'd just employ human filters instead.
Oh yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
> “footpaths are made for shoes not people”, “cycle lanes are made for bicycles not people” or “rail lines are made for trains not people”.

Only one of those literally puts a glass and metal wall between every single person, and I think it's a significant difference in how social you can realistically be, as all time spent traveling is no longer occurring within a social context, but a private one.
Note that it looks like the states on that list that have “DREs without VVPAT” (electronic machines without a paper trail) are Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas on that list, along with some DREs without VVPAT in Kansas and Mississippi.

Since Trump won 7/8 of those states, a conspiracy theorist might suggest that Trump’s team successfully hacked the electronic machines in those states that have no paper trail.

However, there’s really very little reason to believe there was fraud in this election - but those republican states (and New Jersey) should replace their DREs without VVPAT by the next election so that they have a secure paper trail for auditing.